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Market Frictions

Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

Kirsten W Endres author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:6th Jun '19

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Based on ethnographic research conducted over several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai. Here, it is revealed how small-scale traders and market vendors experience the marketplace, reflect upon their trading activities, and negotiate current state policies and regulations. It shows how “traditional” Vietnamese marketplaces have continually been reshaped and adapted to meet the changing political-economic circumstances and civilizational ideals of the time.

“It is a pleasure to read studies of this quality. The author is an accomplished storyteller and she succeeds admirably in the task she sets herself.”• Chris Gregory, Australian National University, Canberra

"The author skillfully weaves together the study of marketplaces and border politics to advance a new understanding of urban trade, morality, and border subjectivities." • Christina Schwenkel, University of California

ISBN: 9781789202441

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170 pages